Saved from Larry Summers

2:21 PM,
Sep. 17, 2013

Froma Harrop

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The week opened nicely with news that Lawrence Summers had taken his name out of the running for the Federal Reserve chairman job. We won't be subjected to the notoriously unpleasant Summers denigrating those who would distinguish between Wall Street's interests and the country's. Still more gratifying is that Democrats, and not just the liberal ones, put the kibosh on President Obama's mystifying desire to put this Wall Street-Washington hybrid in charge of our central banking system.

Sen. Jon Tester, moderate Democrat from Montana, thank you for pulling the plug. Not that President ...